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Re: printtool error



On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 11:42:34PM -0400, Jule Slootbeek wrote:
> I just installed printtool under woody, and when i tried to run 
> printtool as root, i got the following error, what does the error mean? 
> and how can i fix it?
> I got it trying to run cupsys as well.
> any ideas?
> Jule
> 
> --error--
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0"
> Couldn't load bindings.tcl
> Start from control-panel or set environment variable
> CONTROL_PANEL_LIB_DIR to the control-panel library dir.
> (normally this is /usr/share/printtool)
> --error--

Are you running X as yourself, then trying to run printtool as root? If
you are, there are some ways that you can let that happen, and there was
a large thread about this a short while ago, but I can't look itup right
now.

-- 
Seneca
seneca-cunningham@rogers.com


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